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"Despite anything whether it be related by blood or not, we're still family no matter what."

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Chapter 146 🧡

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(Just Diane so very motherly she has become, despite experiencing the lost and accepting hard faithfully through things happened to her 🧡)

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Another styling outfit for nasiens with iconic palettes ✨

(more like the king's outfit color palettes used °>°)

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I will write a whole list of headcanons about Lance if you draw the day-after of that Drunk TriLance, I need that boy with a hangover and suffering relentless teasing XDD

this is so fuckin delayed bUT- here it is 🤲🤲 (pt. 2 of the drunk TriLance drawing)

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Forgot that yesterday was his birthday, so let me just post some doodles I did after the last 4koma chapters

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OH Heck yeah!

Harlequin, defending his everything!

His people, his realm, his kid!

GET'EM!!

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Mmmmmmmm

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CW: blood

peak immortal slut behaviour 😌

inspired by this response from @jinn-mori !!

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hahaha nakaba leave Myrtle alone

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4KOTA ✨142✨aka I have a BONE to pick with Nakaba

Oh boy, this chapter is a lot and I honestly want to make separate posts about several different things but I don't have enough patience for that so this is going to be a long one so buckle up.

This entire chapter is just all about setting up conflict for the chapters to come. We have this whole thing with the Drug of Yore, Nasiens, and Mertyl.

I also noticed that Phao overheard Diane and Tioreh's conversation so the rest of the kids are also gonna be involved in this whole ordeal one way or another.

So, the Drug of Yore. The source of all of this.

In the previous chapter, it's heavily implied that King is going to give Nasiens the Drug of Yore and for plot's sake I guessed that Mertyl will witness all of this unfold and that is exactly what happened.

Nasiens was upset about several things, mainly why is King giving this to him when Mertyl is sick and why did King give this to him now. Nasiens has been in the Fairy Realm for two years now and has been trying his hardest to find a cure for Percival then King comes in with the Drug of Yore which is essentially the medicine of all medicines.

Now, I don't think Nasiens has clued in that Mertyl is just a human in the Fairy Realm. Because Mertyl being human is the problem here, he's not sick, he's perfectly fine and healthy he just can't handle the Fairy Realm's atmosphere. That's why King didn't give the drug to Mertyl and since this is a rare drug he's probably not gonna risk it (even if that's his kid) and even if he did try to give it to Mertyl it's not gonna work.

Now, I looked back on the Grudge of Edinburg movie and I'm confident to say that the Drug of Yore is the same medicine that King used on Elizabeth, it's in the same bottle too. However, I also noticed something. In the movie, the bottle has a generous amount of elixir, but right now in the manga, it's almost empty, and the amount of elixir in the bottle is perfect for just a single dose. Which means King must have used this drug on someone before. This led me to a rabbit hole. I lost my good mind on this.

My guess is that King has given the Drug of Yore to Mertyl at least multiple times already but noticed that it's not working so he stuck with giving him the pills. This also explains why Mertyl has heard of the drug before when this is supposed to be an ancient secret medicine, he just forgot about it because it's been such a long time. This led to a shortage of the drug since King had been giving it to Mertyl this entire time. As said by King, it's a rare drug extracted from flowers on top of the Sacred Tree and these flowers only grow once every millennium (1k years) so this thing is not easily accessible, and it probably takes time to produce. Most likely the reason why it took 2 years for King to give the drug to Nasiens is because that is how long it took for King to acquire the perfect amount for at least a single dose that Nasiens can use. Besides, as per King's phrasing he's not even sure that it's gonna work on Percy.

On that note.

Will the Drug of Yore work on Percy?

In a sense yes it will but all it will do is bring OG Percival's soul back to the body, not our Percy. But it could also work because our Percy has more connection to the body than OG Percy. Maybe Nasiens could use the Drug of Yore as the main ingredient of the actual drug that he'll give to Percy to bring him back.

King messed up here but that doesn't make him a bad parent it actually makes him a realistic one

King's main fault here is not talking to Mertyl and apparently any of the kids about the whole adoption thing right away resulting in Mertyl's ever-growing insecurities, which realistically I really can't blame him for because it's a hard topic to discuss but really? It's been 18 years and you didn't say anything.

No parent is perfect and parenting is hard and Kiane is trying their best to be as good parents as they can for their 7 little munchkins. They mean well and obviously love their children a lot they just fumbled the bag on this one. I could also see Mertyl at fault here for not trusting his parent's love for him but again I can see why he felt the way that he did.

I don't think the reason King didn't give it to Nasiens right away is because he wanted to keep him there. That is a pretty selfish and petty reason and I know King, he's not that type of person, especially when the fate of the world hangs in the balance. I can actually see King not revealing that Nasiens is his kid ever and just being content to see his kid again and see the kind of person he grew up to be. To King, it's enough that he knows that his kid is alive and well. Nasiens will most likely realize this in the future, with the help of Lancelot (probably) (I love Lance I have to put him in everything lol this is his fam too yk)

We really haven't seen either King or Diane's side of the story, we don't know anything really and I still have enough trust in Nakaba that he'll give us a good reason for all of this. We'll probably see that next chapter (hopefully) cause with these types of dramas usually the parents' POV are the last ones shown.

They love Mertyl

Seeing both Sixtus and Tioreh's actions alone I can say that they love Mertyl to bits even if Tioreh knows that Mertyl is not his biological brother and I guess she's the first one to figure this out, she's upset at the idea that Mertyl won't be family anymore. Sixtus also shows great admiration and love for his big brother. And hey! even if Mertyl is human and not their actual kid he's still their big brother. They're acting like Mertyl's gonna be replaced or something when Nasiens is just an addition to their family and Mertyl is not going anywhere because he's forever part of their family.

This whole thing boils down to misunderstanding really, everyone has their own interpretation of the situation and people keep running off before anyone can explain anything (classic) I hope, boy I hope this will be resolved quickly and fast cause I hate seeing my babies suffer.

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They're siblings now (⁠ ⁠ꈍ⁠ᴗ⁠ꈍ⁠)

#i forgot i had this on my wips #i wish them all to be happy #together #as siblings #also they changed Tioreh's flower clip #four knights of the apocalypse #mokushiroku no yon kishi #4kota #mnyk #nasiens #tioreh #mertyl

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"Y-yeah..."

HE ADMITTED IT- HE ADMITTED IT-

NASIENS ADMITTED HE LOVED PERCY 2024

I'M SO HAPPY (ik we already knew but him saying it out loud is still amazing)

AND TIOREH AND HIM ARE SO SIBLING CODED LOL, I LOVE HER SO MUCH DESPITE HER COMMENT ON PERCIVAL 🙂.

Tioreh to Nasiens : I know what you are 😏😏

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Percy Platoon meeting King

Nasiens: Please behave yourselves in front of him.

Donny: Don't worry we wouldn't dare be rude

Anne: *bows* Lord Fairy King, I must thank you for taking such good care of our friends.

Donny: *bows* Right, we are truly grateful.

Lancelot: *rolls his eyes* You guys are so stiff.

Donny: *whisper yells* Lancelot, Nasiens told us to behave, do you even realize who you're talking to?!

Lancelot: Of course I do. Besides, you guys need to relax a bit. You're acting like he'll smite you at any given time.

Anne: *whisper yells* Hey he just might, now shut up! Here I thought you're the smart one!

Lancelot: Has Nasiens also been like this during his stay here?

King: Well, I did tell him to ignore my title and just relax but it seems like he's quite uncomfortable with the very thought of it.

Lancelot: *sighs* Sorry about that.

King: It's quite alright. Besides, I'm glad that you brought him here.

Lancelot: Right... I didn't expect that I'll be the reason that you get to see him again. Regardless, I'm quite proud that it's me.

King: Thank you Lancelot *pats him on the head*

Lancelot: *smiles*

Anne and Donny:

Nasiens: Yeah... About that... A lot of things happened and I learned a few things about myself.

Donny: And that is...

Nasiens: I'mafairyandthelonglostchildofthefairykingandgiantqueen

Anne: Hold on, could you repeat that. Slowly, this time

Nasiens: I'm a fairy and the long lost child of the fairy king and giant queen

Anne and Donny:

Lancelot: Which makes me your cousin *grins*

Anne, Donny and Nasiens:

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love and grief

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Us, when Nasiens first appeared in the manga

#we've come a long way #nasiens #my babey #four knights of the apocalypse #mokushiroku no yon kishi #4kota #mnyk #the four knights of the apocalypse

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I was kinda attached to the short fringe, why is it longer all of a sudden????

The problema here is that nakaba change the way he draws Nasiens now. Geezzzz

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Bright-

#something something au #wanted to try something new #ehe #nasiens #four knights of the apocalypse #mokushiroku no yon kishi #4kota #mnyk #the four knights of the apocalypse

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They could be siblings, forming a bond over this mix up. It's beautiful, it's precious, and for some reason I'm seeing Myrtle as the older brother even tho they should technically be the same age (maybe the fairy who switched them just chose some random baby, regardless of age, lol)

Plus it's not like Kiane would love him less now that their maybe possibly real child, Nasiens, is here.

Mertyl drama queen fr

So let's talk about Mertyl... again

So... this guy is not escaping the adoption allegations until it's proven. Good lord. Like, this is not even close to the Chion situation back then cause at least Chion looks like his parents. But Mertyl, not even close.

One thing I wanna point out though is this.

I mentioned it before that his issues with Humans makes no sense and I still stand by it.

In this panel he talked about the strife between the Humans, Fairies and Giants and how King and Diane lost some of their close best friends in the process and the panel shows Helbram and Matrona.

One, Matrona is still alive, yes that severe injury is caused by humans but it is also a human who healed her and took care of her, that is same human she ended up living with her together with his two kids who are now currently residing in the Fairy King's Forest with her. She's living her best life.

Two, Uncle Ban is human and Lancelot is half-human and it's canon and pretty obvious that King adores Lancelot.

In this panel, Mertyl threatens the fairy that is responsible for the changeling and said that King already told them to stop and told them not to wreck the relationship between the humans. If Mertyl is not so fond of humans, why would he care.

Now, here's the deal. The Nasiens-is-Kiane's-kid theory is growing strong and I think I found the reason why Mertyl acts the way he does here.

I think Mertyl knows that he's not their real kid and he's trying the best he could to be useful enough for them so he couldn't be disposed of. I don't think he has any particular strife with Humans, he just has issues with Nasiens being there because Nasiens does look like their kid and what he said about his health becoming a lot better during his stay in the fairy realm indicates that he may just be a fairy and Mertyl feels threatened by this, he wants Nasiens out of there before anything can be confirmed so Mertyl could stay there and be their kid still especially now that King and Diane already know something or suspect something about Nasiens.